JBB’s Final Thoughts Episode 31: Bad UI & How It’s Hurting Tech Usage in the...
JBB’s Final Thoughts Episode 31: Bad UI & How It’s Hurting Tech Usage in the Classroom Two examples of bad user-interface design that can easily derail tech usage in the classroom. You thinks it’s...
View ArticleCCSD Begins WiFi for Students (using buses!)
CCSD Begins WiFi for Students (using buses!) From CCSD: CCSD Transportation has established 13 bus routes that will operate daily allowing students access to Wi-Fi at designated times. Each bus route...
View ArticleJBB’s Final Thoughts Tech Special: 2 Generations of DIY Teleprompters
JBB’s Final Thoughts Tech Special: 2 Generations of DIY Teleprompters While doing research for my previous podcast I stumbled into a rabbit hole of numerous DIY Teleprompter videos and realized that I...
View ArticleVideo Fridays: “I’m not playing with robots, I’m building the Future”
Video Fridays: “I’m not playing with robots, I’m building the Future”e Around this time five years ago I was finishing up my first summer teaching at a tech summer camp where we spent one week...
View ArticleVideo Fridays: Sharing Fridays & Virtual Show & Tell
Video Fridays: Sharing Fridays & Virtual Show & Tell Earlier in the week, one of my robotics students wanted to share one of his LEGO creations on-screen, which led me to share one of my LEGO...
View ArticleVideo Fridays: My Super Weird iMac “Review
Video Fridays: My Super Weird iMac “Review” It’s been a while since my last non-FB blog post. Thank you beginning of the school year. Most days I’m lucky to not be at my computer when I’m eating...
View ArticleHappy LEGO Mindstorms Robot Inventor Release Day!
Simply put: I want. I know, it’s a bit of a problem, my small robot obsession. But there it is. The new upgrade to the Mindstorms EV3 robotics kit was released today and I want it. Alas, it will have...
View ArticleI’m Exhausted, Let’s Go to Space
The third quarter of the school year ended on Friday and today is the one-year anniversary when we went home from work not knowing that we would begin teaching remotely three days later. I’m tired. My...
View Article2021-2022 School Year Prep – Week 3: Robotics Academy of Nevada Conference
This is my third year participating in the annual Robotics Academy of Nevada (RAN) conference and the first face-to-face conference I’ve done since we were sent home on March 13, 2020. I spent three...
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